If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.

For spiritual teachers, it is important not to identify with the image people inevitably have of them.

So really what it comes down to, it's God. Wherever you look, it's God appearing as this, that, that...and what you really love and appreciate in each form is the divine formless out of which each form comes. But to be able to sense that you have to sense it in yourself first. And that is seeing the beauty in everything, that's really what it means.

Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.

The stream of thinking has enormous momentum that can easily drag you along with it. Every thought pretends that it matters so much.

"Spiritual teacher" of course is not an identity. "Spiritual teacher" is a function. Somebody comes, the teaching happens. Somebody leaves, there's no spiritual teacher left.

Forgive yourself for not being at peace.